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Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department are employed in the (a) Corporate Communications unit, (b) E-communications unit, (c) Marketing and Strategic Communications unit and (d) Press Office of the Communications Directorate; and how many are employed in the Directorate in total. [247824]

Mr. Woolas: The following table provides the total number of staff employed by the Communications Directorate and the specific units requested in the question.

Communications Directorate
	Headcount as at 31 December 2008( 1)
Total staff headcount in the Communications Directorate	177
Which includes:
(a) Corporate Communications	28
(b) E-communications unit	16
(c) Marketing and Strategic Communications unit	23
(d) Press Office	42
(1) Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency) and non-active staff.

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department are employed in the (a) Crime and Drug Strategy Directorate, (b) Police and Crime Standards Directorate, (c) Police Reform and Resources, (d) Policing Policy and Operations Directorate and (e) Strategic Support Directorate of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group; and how many staff are employed in the Group in total. [247825]

Mr. Woolas: The following table provides the total number of staff employed by the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group (CRCSG) and the specific directorates requested in the question.

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Headcount as at 31 December 2008( 1)
	Number
Total staff Headcount(2) in Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group (CRCSG) Directorate	599
Which includes:
(a) Crime and Drugs Strategy Directorate (CDSD)	128
(b) Police and Crime Standards Directorate (PCSD)	105
(c) Police, Reform and Resource Directorate (PRRD)	75
(d) Policing Policy and Operations Directoarate (PPOD)	214
(e) Strategic Support Directorate (SSD)	72
(1) Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency) (2) Total staff headcount include non-active staff.

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department's staff are employed in the (a) Animal (Scientific Procedures) Division, (b) Home Office Scientific Development Branch, (c) Research, Development and Statistics Branch, (d) Science and Research Group Support and (e) Science Secretariat of her Department's Science and Research Group; and how many are employed by the Group in total. [247827]

Mr. Woolas: The following table shows the overall number of people employed within the Home Office's Science and Research Group broken down by the requested units.

Please note that the research teams are embedded within each Home Office business area rather than within the Science and Research Group and are therefore not included in these figures.

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Headcount in Science and Research Group (SRG)
SRG Unit	Main purpose	Headcount as at 31 December 2008
Director	Chief Scientific Advisor and office	2
Animal (Scientific Procedures Division and Inspectorate)	Licences all experiments which use animals and provides scientific advice to the Home Secretary and to officials who operate the licensing system.	55
Home Office Scientific Development Branch	Provides all the technical and scientific support and development for policing, Counter Terrorism and all other HO functions	245
Economics and Resource Analysis Unit	Uses economic and operational analysis, forward- looking modelling and horizon scanning to support HO decision-making	37
Home Office Statistics Unit	Produces HO National Statistics together with statistical information and advice on Home Office topics	70
Science and Research Group Support	Provides corporate support for the group and a shared service for HO and Ministry of Justice analytic teams	27
Science Secretariat	Provides a secretariat to the HO Science Advisory Committees and leads HO Science Strategy and planning	12
Forensic Science Regulator Unit	Regulates forensic science quality standards for forensic science used in the Criminal Justice System	8
Total staff headcount		456
Note: Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency)

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department's staff in total are employed in the (a) UK Border Agency, Immigration and International Section, (b) UK Border Agency, Border Enforcement and Citizenship Section, (c) UK Border Agency, Simplification Project, (d) Commercial and Employment Section, (e) European Union Section, (f) Identity and Passport Service and Corporate Projects Section and (g) Policing and Crime Reduction Section of her Department's Legal Advisers Branch; and how many are employed in the Branch in total. [247829]

Mr. Woolas: The following tables provides the total number of staff employed by the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Group (CRCSG) and the specific directorates requested in the question.

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FTE as at 31 December 2008
	Number
Total staff in United Kingdom Border Agency (Including UKVisas)	18,192
which includes:
(a) United Kingdom Border Agency
Immigration and International Section
Immigration Group(1)	9,391
International Group(2)	681
Total	10,072
(b) United Kingdom Border Agency
Border Enforcement and Citizenship Section
Border Force(3)	4,483
Citizenship(4)	587
Total	5,070
(c) United Kingdom Border Agency
Simplification Project	17
Other (comprising)
Resource Management Group	1,142
Human Resources and Organisational Development	327
Policy and Strategy(5)	251
Intelligence	226
Criminal and Detention Group	1,078
Chief Inspectorate and Programme Directorate	10
Total	3,033
(1) Excludes Citizenship given under (b) (2) Of which 92 are International Group employees and the remainder are former UKVisas employees still held on FCO payroll. Headcount figures are unavailable for these workers. (3) Includes E-Borders (4) These staff are part of Immigration Group. (5) Excluding Simplification Project

Headcount as at 31 December 2008
	Number
Total staff in Legal Advisers Branch (LAB)	51
which includes:
(a) Commercial and Employment section	8
(b) European Union section	3
(c) Identity and Passport Service and Corporate Projects Section	3
(d) Policing and Crime Reduction section	5
Note: Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency) and non-active staff

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department’s staff are employed in the (a) EU section and (b) European near neighbours and wider world section of the International Directorate; and how many are employed in the Directorate in total. [247830]

Mr. Woolas: The following table provides the total number of staff employed by the International Directorate and the specific directorates requested in the

question.

International Directorate	Headcount as at 31 December 2008
Total staff in the International Directorate(1)	45
Which includes :
(a) International Directorate HQ staff(2)	33
(b) Overseas Secondment Review Board(3)	10
(1) Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency). (2) Includes staff working in EU and Wider World. (3) Includes staff working mainly in the EU.

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department’s staff are employed in the (a) Career Development and Assessment Unit, (b) Departmental Security Unit, (c) Home Office Pay and Pensions Service and (d) HR Services of the Human Resources Department; and how many people are employed in the Department in total. [247831]

Mr. Woolas: The following table provides the total number of staff employed by the Home Office and the specific directorates requested in the question.

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Home Office	Full-time equivalent as at 31 December 2008
Total staff in the Home Office(1)	25819.47
(a) Career Development and Assessment Unit	53.4
(b) HO Departmental Security Unit	56.1
(c) Home Office Pay and Pensions Service	210.5
(d) HR Services	96
(1) Total includes permanent, non-permanent and non-active staff in UKBA, IPS, CRB and HO HQ staff FTE. UKBA’s figures exclude UK Visas. IPS figures include General Register Office (GRO). (a) to (d) excludes non-active staff.

Departmental Pay

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make it her policy that temporary and permanent employees of her Department employed at the same grade receive the same hourly rate of pay. [248414]

Mr. Woolas: All staff employed directly by the Home Office in the same grade are paid on the same salary scale, whether or not they are employed on a permanent or non-permanent contract.

Whether an employee is permanent or temporary in itself has no bearing on the rate of pay they will receive.

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